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and shortest path to meet rising food needs. Using examples from farmers' maize and rice fields, and comparisons with Asia …
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impact on agricultural production decisions remains limited. Data from 1,200 Ghanaian rice farmers suggest that noncognitive …, and technical efficiency in rice production, and that the size of the estimated impacts exceeds that of traditional human …
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be time-varying, thus allowing yields to diverge in some interim phases. Rice yields across districts appear to be …
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penetrating international markets. Such progress will contribute substantially to the government's rice sector policy of exporting … place its rice in international markets given a more detailed analysis of its current and potential customers …In 2010, Cambodia exported 40,000 metric tons of rice. In 2013, Cambodia exported nearly 400,000 metric tons ofrice to …
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Malnutrition is a huge burden on the Arab Republic of Egypt's economy. Undernutrition-manifested by poor linear growth (stunting), wasting, and micronutrient deficiencies in children and by anemia among women of reproductive age-collectively saps an estimated two percent of Egypt's annual gross...
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This paper examines the costs, impacts, and cost-effectiveness of scaling up over five years the nutrition interventions included in Afghanistan's Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) as a first step in investing in the early years to build human capital. The total public investment required...
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In January 2016 the Government of Bangladesh requested technical assistance from the World Bank and the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) to estimate the cost of implementing nutrition actions considered for the inclusion in the country's Second National Plan of Action for Nutrition...
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Senegal is among the few countries in Sub-Saharan Africa that have succeeded in improving their population's nutritional status in recent decades. The prevalence of key nutrition indicators, such as the proportion of children stunted, wasted, and underweight, is lower than that in most other...
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Nutrition has been ingrained in key social and economic development policies in Senegal since the birth of the Republic. The evolution of nutrition policy, and its impact on the state of nutrition in Senegal, is the result of a constant interplay between social, environmental, and economic...
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